Ancient stones older than Stonehenge knocked down to make way for DIY shop

Some past neolithic stones that are older than Stonehenge are being knocked down truthful that a DIY store tin beryllium built.

The determination has caused outrage astatine the tract successful Carnac, successful France’s Brittany region, which is good known for its extended fields of Neolithic-era stones, known arsenic ‘menhir’.

The stones are beauteous big, measuring astir 3ft (1m) precocious and person been c dated and were built from 5,480 to 5,320 BC – making them older than Stonehenge.

Mayor Olivier Lepick claimed excavations carried retired past June determined the tract had a ‘low archaeological value’ and didn’t merit protection, CNN reports.

But the removal of the stones astatine the site, 3km distant from a protected tourer attraction, drew disapproval from a section amateur archaeologist, Christian Obeltz.

His blog station accusing section authorities of ‘denaturing this globally recognised site’, and denouncing ‘several abrupt developments successful the vicinity of the Carnac menhir alignments, distorting this world-famous site’, received planetary attention.

The tract is portion of an exertion for UNESCO World Heritage Status which was acceptable to beryllium submitted to the French Ministry of Culture astatine the extremity of past September, Mr Obeltz claimed.

‘Whether it’s small oregon not, [the site] has an archaeological value,’ helium told BFMTV.

Despite the outcry implicit the removal of the stones, the enactment went ahead, with the caller subdivision of ‘Mr. Bricolage’ DIY shops already unfastened successful Carnac.

Meanwhile Mr Lepick claimed sum of the contention ‘does not bespeak the reality’ of the concern connected the ground.

Speaking to French quality transmission CNews helium said: ‘There were ne'er 39 menhirs successful this place. The preventative excavations we carried retired successful 2015 intelligibly amusement this.

‘It’s truly not the benignant of images described successful definite media articles. I consciousness similar I person destroyed the Mona Lisa erstwhile I work definite articles.

‘There were not archaeological remains of capable worth to cull readying permission.’

He said the destroyed stones were located successful a commercialized area, other a work presumption and adjacent to a supermarket and recycling centre.

This nonfiction was primitively published connected June 29, 2024.

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